Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Roberts and daughter. Miss Marceline, were Lafayette visitors today. Medaryville la to play ball at Frances ville next Sunday. Rivalry is intense. Harry Eiger left this afternoon for Portland, Oreg., where he will prospect with a view to locating. Our Holden home grown tomatoes are finer than ever this week, with' price reduced to 5c a pound.—Home Grocery. Mrs. J. H. O’Neal 1 came yesterday from Indianapolis, and will remain with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parcel Is, for some time. Mr. O’Neall is still working as a field examiner for the board of accountants and has just been sent to Jeffersonville, where he worked for some time several months ago. Governor Deneen, of Illinois, suffered slight injuries at Elgin, 111., Thursday. He was reviewing the national guard and his horse became frightened and dashed into a carriage nearby. The Governor managed to stay on the horse and to escape serious injury, but ope of his legs was bruised badly from being scraped against the carriage,

The Northern Indiana League, to which the Lafayette ball team belonged, has disbanded. Minus Irwin was the last,manager of the Lafayette team and he was making a success of that team but most of the teams were lofcing money and Bluffton, Logansport and Huntington dropped out, leaving only Lafayette, Wabash and Marion. ■

Speaking of auto speeding, an attorney calls attention to the fact that whilp a fine may appear insignificant to the speeder, yet if anybody Is hurt as a result of unlawful speeding there is absolutely no defense against a suit for damages, and in case of a fatal accident the speeder is liable besides to criminal prosecution for involuntary manslaughter.

Mrs. Julius A. Swartz and daughter Gertrude came this morning for a visit' over Sunday with her father, August Malchow and family. Mrs. Swartz says that the oats crop near Brookston and Chalmers probably averaged about 45 bushels to the acre and that there were some yields reported as large as 75 bushels per acre. Corn is looking fine there, the same as here.

Get coupons in the piano contest by trading at the Depot Grocery.’

When the Monon gets Its new passenger coaches completed it is said there will be two new trains added, cne of which will pass here southbound about 6:15 p„ m., and the other northbound about 10:45 p. m., thus cutting in two a gap of about 12 hours in schedule each way. When this is accomplished'the Monon will have a train service unequaled b> any other Chicago and Indianapolis line. 4

Remember—Piano Votes with every\ purchase at the Home Grocery.

The annual pass system, after being In discard for several years, has again been’ adopted by tbe Pennsylvania railroad. Under the former ruling only those employes having business at different stations on a division were allowed transportation. The new ruling allows passes for an employe with more than three years service to his credit. Following is the rule for the apportionment of the passes: Employes with three years service, a division pass; ten years, a division pass for man and wife; fifteen years, southwestern system pass for man and wife; twenty years, northwestern system pass for man and wife; twentyfive years, a pass oh any part of the company’s lines.

Out of the high tent district—Depot Grocery. Try us! >

“Uncle” George Robinson, of Hanging Grove township, dropped in for a little chat a few days ago. He is now. tbe only one left of the original settlers from Rush county, and recalls his arrival here in June of 1847. Four mouths earlier, or in February, his father, John Robinson, accompanied by Simon Phillips, Turner A. Knox and Frederick Riahling came to Jasper county trom Rußh county by horseback and after investigating tbe conditions in this county returned to Rush and later all returned. Mr. Robinson locating in Hanging Grove. George was at that time only 11 years of age. He has seen the county grow from Its wild state at that time to its present excellence. Mr. and Mra. Robinson are now planning a trip to South Dakota to visit their son, Chas, Robinson and wife, near Mitchell, and they expect to start as soon as tbe peach crop is harvested.